We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Fortinet FortiGate SWG based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is favored over Fortinet FortiGate SWG thanks to its extensive capabilities, such as enterprise DLP, sandboxing, and granular policies. Fortinet FortiGate SWG is stable and dependable, but lacks in web and DMC features, reporting capabilities, and network traceability. Customer service and support for Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway received mixed reviews, but its pricing is considered reasonable or average by some reviewers. Overall, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway offers a strong sense of security and protection, resulting in a positive ROI.
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"This is a highly detailed product with very good key features."
"Secure Web Gateway's most valuable features are firewall blocking and anti-malware scanning."
"I like the product's scalability and stability."
"In terms of performance, Forcepoint stands out because it is more scalable than any other solution. It can extend to different types of boxes and integrate well with other platforms and vendors. And it doesn't need to have the same kind of box or throughput to have high availability."
"The critical role is web URL filtering."
"The initial setup is easy. It's not difficult."
"The solution provided our organization with easy and secure internet access."
"The solution’s administration is easy."
"FortiGate SWG's most valuable feature is integration with vulnerability management."
"The interface is user-friendly, so it's easy to add policies and block traffic."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate SWG is inspection."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"The product is stable and strong."
"It offers web filtering capabilities at a more affordable price compared to other solutions like PSMs or NETGEAR."
"I would rate the scalability of this product a nine out of ten because it is highly scalable. We have not had problems with customers in terms of scalability."
"The pricing on offer is excellent."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"I would suggest focusing on improving the GUI's stability, especially when implementing new filters or patches."
"But the deployment could be easier. It might take from one day to three days. Usually, that involves an engineer from the vendor and a working team at the enterprise."
"It's the support that's the problem because that's a different question from the product itself — it's the Achilles heel."
"The Sandbox solution should be integrated with the NIST to handle whatever new vulnerabilities or new sites are identified as potential threats."
"It takes 20 to 30 minutes for policy replication."
"The product could be improved by including a consolidated product that can carry on Forcepoint product email, web, and DLP."
"A feature we wish to see addressed in the next release of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway involves its administration."
"To access the root of the product for troubleshooting you must have a data engineer. This is the big issue with Forcepoint. The support community is not good."
"The initial setup is medium complex and takes between five days and a week."
"What could be improved in Fortinet FortiGate SWG is its pricing because it's a bit higher. If it's cheaper, my company could pitch it to customers and engage with customers better about it. What I'd like to see in the next release of Fortinet FortiGate SWG is an improvement in its dashboard or GUI. I'd like it to be more user-friendly."
"I would like the deployment and integration of this product to be easier. We should be able to deploy the features more easily and have different types of access. It should be easier to integrate. Currently, we need to develop APIs to use this interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG's costs need improvement."
"Fortinet's support team consists of a huge networking team, because of which there is a delay in response at times."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet FortiGate SWG is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It is complicated to manage different kinds of on-premise boxes."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG can be expensive for some customers."
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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 47 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is ranked 4th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 39 reviews. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway writes "Simple to set up, reliable, and offers great reporting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate SWG writes "Non-IT people could plug it in, connect it to the fiber, and get it running without IT help. ". Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiProxy and Cisco Web Security Appliance, whereas Fortinet FortiGate SWG is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Fortinet FortiProxy, Sangfor Internet Access Gateway (IAG), Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway and Axis Security. See our Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway vs. Fortinet FortiGate SWG report.
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